{"id":141623,"date":"2023-07-14T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/?p=141623"},"modified":"2023-07-14T21:26:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T21:26:19","slug":"panama-tocumen-airport-handled-more-than-8-5-million-passengers-in-first-half-of-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/2023\/07\/panama-tocumen-airport-handled-more-than-8-5-million-passengers-in-first-half-of-2023.html","title":{"rendered":"Panama: Tocumen Airport handled more than 8.5 million passengers in first half of 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During the first half of this year, <strong>Tocumen International Airport<\/strong> handled <strong>8,583,426 <\/strong>passengers, 1,277,239 more than the same period of 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the month of June, the air terminal processed 1,441,346 passengers and moved 17,646 metric tons of cargo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The June 2023 indicators confirm the positive trend of the industry, with a steady and robust growth in relation to the first half 2022 and higher than the highest historical passenger record of 2019 for the same period,&#8221; commented Raffoul Arab, General Manager of Tocumen International Airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Destinations and Markets<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In terms of international connections, in June Tocumen maintained direct routes to 86 destinations, through 16 commercial airlines offering services to the main cities in the Americas and Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>\u2192 <a href=\"https:\/en\/2023\/07\/american-airlines-announces-commercial-redevelopment-of-t8-at-jfk-airport.html\">American Airlines announces commercial redevelopment of T8 at JFK Airport<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>June results indicate that of the total number of passengers using the Tocumen terminal, 67% were connecting passengers. In addition, 11,401 aircraft movements were handled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to data provided by the Statistics Department of Tocumen International Airport, the markets with the greatest regional movement in June were South America with 44%, followed by North America with 28%, the Caribbean with 12%, Central America with 10%, and the European markets with 5%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Regional terminals and cargo<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for the cargo terminal, 99,854 metric tons of merchandise were mobilized during the first six months of the year 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Panama Pacifico, Enrique Malek, Scarlett Martinez and Enrique A. 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